Maureen O'Flynn Takes on Cabaret at Feinstein's in NYC

"Metropolitan Opera artist Maureen O'Flynn will make her New York cabaret debut at Feinstein's at Loews Regency in At the Crossroads, a sumptuous musical feast for the ears, sung by one of the most thrilling voices to grace the worlds of opera, musical theatre & cabaret. With award-winning director Eric Michael Gillett and renowned musical director Don Rebic helming her band, Maureen explores a catalogue of songs sure to appeal to music lovers of all kinds. Her repertoire includes classics by Jerome Kern ("Remind Me"), Cole Porter ("In the Still of the Night," "Find Me a Primitive Man"), Sondheim ("Make the Most of Your Music") & Kurt Weill ("I'm a Stranger Here Myself"), as well as new gems by contemporary songwriters including Flaherty & Ahrens ("I Was Here") & Craig Carnelia ("Flight"). Maureen O’Flynn’s 25-year career has taken her to the most important opera houses of the world, from the Metropolitan Opera to La Scala to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Maureen has sung under the batons of Riccardo Muti, Placido Domingo, Antonio Pappano, Maurizio Benini, Leonard Slatkin & James Conlon, to name a few, performing the title characters in Lucia, La Traviata, Manon, The Merry Widow, Romeo & Juliette, Mimi in La Boheme & Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro. She has also appeared in concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Minnesota Symphony, and on numerous occasions at the star-studded Richard Tucker Gala Concerts at Avery Fisher Hall in NY. Maureen is equally at home in musical theatre. She has performed the roles of Jenny in Sondheim’s Company, Laurie in Oklahoma, Julie in Carousel, Marianne in Moliere’s The Miser & Sister Rita in The Runner Stumbles. She won acclaim for her portrayals of Guinevere in Camelot & Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, with the Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge, Massachusetts." [Source]
In September of 2011, Maureen launched the debut of her first cabaret show, At the Crossroads, at Feinstein's at Loews Regency. She will be returning to Feinstein's with her cabaret show on Dec 18, 2011, and Jan 9 & 10, 2012, at 8:30 PM. If you are feeling reminiscent for some of Ms. Flynn's operatic singing, check out "Caro nome" from Rigoletto after the jump.

Caroline H. Dworin Explores a Childhood Filled With Theatrics

Caroline as a child with opera glasses

"Both our parents worked in the theater, and my father, a stage or company manager in the West End, could never leave his work behind. He returned to our home like a magpie, with the strangest objects in his beak. Backstage remnants became part of our lives. When a show ended its run, scattering its cast and crew onto the street, and occasionally leaving him jobless, he would be cheered by the recovery of leftovers, any props or trinkets he could snare. My mother indulged this. We had a black feather boa, and a cane and some opera glasses that both once belonged to Hermione Gingold, and a replica bottle of Moët & Chandon, which opened from its middle to become part cigarette holder and part music box. The piano I played was once used in a Gershwin review. There was a .32-caliber starting pistol that fired blanks offstage in Act II of A Little Night Music, and in our mother’s wardrobe, buried out of sight, hung a fox fur stole with the face still on it. When bored or in search of danger, I would hunt it down, take it in my hands and look it dead in the eye. It looked right back at me with its dreadful, flattened scowl." [Source]

Hermione Gingold in her U.S. opera debut as The Duchess of Krakenthorp in La Fille du Régiment at the San Francisco Opera in 1974. The cast included Beverly Sills, Spiro Malas, William Harness and was conducted by Anton Guadagno. The production was by Lotfi Mansouri and the performances were sung in English.

Charlotte Church Sang "Pie Jesu" For Murdoch Press Favors

"Singer Charlotte Church gave damning testimony against the British press at the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics on Monday. In it, she claimed that she sang for free at Rupert Murdoch's wedding in exchange for favorable press coverage. Church said that Murdoch gave her a choice: either she could take £100,000 for the job, or she could waive the fee in exchange for positive coverage from Murdoch's outlets. 'I remember being told that Rupert Murdoch had asked me to sing at his wedding to Wendi Deng and it would take place on his yacht in New York," Church told the inquiry. "I remember being told that [there would be] the offer of money or the offer of the favor, in order to basically get good press, to be looked upon favorably.'" [Source] Videos of the confession and the soprano singing "Pie Jesu" from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Requiem are after the jump.

Ruth Ann Swenson On Classmate Rosie O'Donnell's Show

Soprano Ruth Ann Swenson and comedian Rosie O'Donnell have the distinction of having been classmates at the Commack High School on Long Island. Here the singer performs "O mio babbino caro" from Gianni Schicchi during a 1997 taping of her fellow alumni's television show.

Musical Film "My Sister Eileen" Contains Opera References

At the opening of the film, the girls are in their first apartment when they hear operatic singing coming through the window. The landlord declares, "Maybe it's the next Lily Pons or Helen Traubel." Cut to the trio exiting the apartment to find a woman hanging up laundry while she sings "Voi che sapete" from Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro. Full synopis for the film: "Two innocent sisters from Ohio hit Greenwich Village and must cope with wall-shaking subway construction, the neighborhood kooks, and a whopping $65 a month for an apartment. My Sister Eileen is one of those 'Look out, world, we're conquering Manhattan!' movies, with Betty Garrett as a plain, would-be writer and Janet Leigh as her knockout sister, an aspiring actress who draws men like milk draws kittens. The 1955 movie's well-scrubbed Greenwich Village is a delightful fantasy playground. The city was never like this, but it probably should have been. In one of his early roles, Jack Lemmon (crooning one of the Jule Styne-Leo Robin songs quite charmingly) plays a magazine publisher, one of the many Young Men with Ideas he would play in the subsequent decade. Even more interesting is the presence of future director Bob Fosse, as a soda jerk who romances Leigh. Fosse also choreographed the film's musical numbers, and his dances include a delightful quartet at a bandstand and a sensational showdown with Tommy Rall. Fosse and Rall try to outdo each other in a male rivalry dance that will remind Fosse fans of his obsession with hats. The breezy direction is by Richard Quine, who cowrote the script with another future director, Blake Edwards. The original source material, stories by Ruth McKenney, formed the basis for a play and a nonmusical 1942 Rosalind Russell movie, also called My Sister Eileen (in which Quine played the Fosse role); there was a Broadway musical adaptation of the stories, Wonderful Town, which is not related to this film." [Source]

GQ Man of the Year 2011 Awards Set For Sydney Opera House

"GQ Australia editor, and newly anointed Editor of the Year, Nicholas Smith, in association with Chivas, will host the 2011 GQ Men of the Year Awards at the Sydney Opera House. An exclusive black-tie dinner and awards ceremony will be attended by 250 guests and MC’ed by Wil Anderson, with an after party to follow in the GQ Lounge. Celebrating Australia’s leading actors, comedians, musicians, sportsmen, fashion designers and visionaries, the 2011 GQ Men of the Year Awards, in association with Chivas, welcomes back home-grown international celebrities Joel Edgerton, Alex O’Loughlin, and Rachael Taylor and comedian Jason Gann. Also on the guest list are actor Hugh Sheridan, chef Manu Feildel, swimmer James Magnussen and The Project’s Charlie Pickering. Adding further star power to the night are the presenters including David Jones Ambassador Megan Gale, chef Pete Evans, actor Jack Thompson, Sydney

FC’s Brett Emerton, media personality Steve Vizard and author Tara Moss. Also, heading to Australia to attend GQ Men of the Year Awards 2011 is star of Twilight Breaking Dawn, Kellan Lutz and his Australian girlfriend Sharni Vinson. The 2011 GQ Men of the Year Awards, in association with Chivas, comprise 18 categories across entertainment, fashion, the arts, sport, media and philanthropy. Also, for the first time, there is a Woman of the Year category, recognising the achievements of GQ Australia’s favourite Australian leading lady." [Source]

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi: Sex, Drugs, and Opera (Mostly in Vienna)

Naughty boy Gaddafi after capture.

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Muammar, was arrested on November 19 in the town of Ubari, near Sabha in southern Libya, 640 kilometres (400 mi) from Tripoli. It is reported that he had been flown to Zintan by plane. His capture was confirmed by the International Criminal Court (ICC). In the wake of his capture, news starts to leak out about his private life: "A woman claiming to be the ex-wife of Colonel Gaddafi's captured son Saif al-Islam has emerged in Ukraine with extraordinary stories alleging domestic violence and womanising. Nadia, a blue-eyed brunette claims to have met him when she worked as a stripper in a top Moscow nightclub, and says she is currently in hiding, fearing for her life. She claimed that as she prepared for marriage to Saif, she had to fly to Paris to have an operation to 'restore' her virginity. 'The doctor proved my innocence in the presence of Saif's aunt. Then I embraced Islam,' she added. 'I tried to have a normal family, but Saif wanted to live as a single man with lovers and orgies,' she said in a Ukrainian newspaper interview. While there is no proof of her claim of have married and divorced Saif after two years, her claim appears to be taken seriously in Russia and Ukraine. If she is who she says, she could be a key witness at his trial whether it is in Libya or under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. One aspect of his trial is likely to be his alleged friendship with a number of prominent British figures, including Prince Andrew, Tony Blair and Lord Mandelson...'He had certain sexual perversions in sex, for example, he liked to do it in public. I understood that we couldn't live together.'...'When we separated I had only luxurious earrings which I managed to sell for $1 million. I lived in Moscow on this money. Now almost nothing is left.' Her most recent interview was with Ukrainian paper Respublika. It was made shortly before his capture. 'I thought Saif would turn my life into an Eastern fairytale,' she said. 'It didn't work.'" [Source]

The playboy in his former setting of luxury, the Vienna Opera Ball in 2006.

Sydney Opera House Inspired Axel Enthoven Camping Tent

"Alighting in France’s Provence with the fragrance of lavender in the air. Enjoying a good glass of wine in the hills of Tuscany. Day-dreaming with the murmur of the Mediterranean in your ears. If you make the Opera your travel companion, a whole new world will open up to you. A world in which you can enjoy the luxuries of a comfortable hotel against the backdrop of your favourite natural landscapes. A world in which you have the freedom to go, or stay, wherever you wish, while relishing the purity of the outdoors in style. Welcome to the world of Opera, Your Suite in Nature. The Opera is a mobile designer suite in a class of her own. Within minutes, she will show you her characteristic outlines, resting firmly on her legs in a level position. The teak veranda is an invitation for you to come on board, where you’ll be amazed by the luxury and detail. Such as the two electrically adjustable beds that can easily be transformed into one. Or the boiler supplying warm water to the kitchen, the fountain and the (exterior) shower. The hot air heating. The ceramic toilet. The top loading refrigerator. The low-energy LED lighting from awning to floor. The Opera offers you the convenience of a complete holiday home." [Source] More photos after the jump.

MET Opera Archive Alert: Beverly Sills Costume On the Loose

Could the costume in question be Thais?

"Like so many New Yorkers making the move from Manhattan to Queens, the Theatre Development Fund was after one thing: closet space. That's a serious concern when your wardrobe includes 75,000 outfits and accessories. You can't just call up U-Haul. 'It's like moving your apartment. But a much, much, much bigger apartment,' said Stephen Cabral, director of the Fund's costume collection, which this week opened the doors at its new 16,000 square-foot space in the Kaufman Astoria Studios. Costumers are invited to search the racks for items for their productions or they can email their requirements and measurements. The Fund will send digital photos of the potential items, and then have the costumes mailed. You never know what you might get. A few years ago, Cabral was asked to send costumes for a theater company in Chicago that was putting on Follies. He soon got

Thais costume front

an email response: One of the young actors, an aspiring opera singer, looked at her new costume's label and burst into tears. It said 'The Metropolitan Opera' and, below that, 'Beverly Sills.' 'I thought, `There's a really good example of how little things like that can change lives,'' said Cabral, who started working with the collection 18 years ago and intuitively knows how to find virtually any item, even though the collection hasn't been fully inventoried or computerized." [Source] More guesses after the jump as to which Beverly Sills costume could have ended up in Follies.

Need a Place to Stay in Vietnam? Try Hôtel de l’Opéra Hanoï

"In the heart of ancient Hanoï is a haven of boutique sophistication reinventing the Bohemian glamour of the Belle Époque era with a 21st Century twist. An operatic highlight in ancient Hanoï, Hôtel de l’Opéra Hanoï rests just a step away from Hanoï’s beautiful Opera House. The hotel distils the best of Hanoi – colonial accents in the architecture and theatrical interior design of jewel tone accents and classic opera motifs juxtaposed with contemporary spaces for dining and entertaining. All the glamour and anticipation of a night at the opera are captured within every experience, from the decadence of the guestrooms to the opulence of Satine – the fine dining restaurant. During the day, Hôtel de l’Opéra Hanoï is the place to meet, with delicacies at Café Lautrec, indulgent treatments at the spa and a cool place to relax in the atrium." [Source] More photos after the jump.

Actress Kristin Scott Thomas, seen here in front of the opera house in Hanoï, is an ambassador to the
Hôtel de l'Opéra. Check out her videos and photos here.

Anna Netrebko's son, Tiago, Will Start Education in Vienna

Little Tiago with his proud father,
opera singer Erwin Schrott

Fresh off a trip to Barcelona to see her partner Erwin Schrott sing in Gounod's Faust at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, soprano Anna Netrebko sits down after a day of shopping to discuss learning German and her plans for son Tiago when he is ready for school:
Frau Netrebko, ich habe gehört, Sie nehmen fleißig Deutsch-Stunden. Wie geht es Ihnen damit? Ja, ich nehme Unterrichtsstunden. Aber es ist schwer, weil die meisten nur Englisch mit mir sprechen wollen. Trotzdem muss ich es jetzt perfekt lernen, weil mein Sohn Tiago hier bald in den Kindergarten kommt und er dort Deutsch lernt, und ich will mich mit ihm unterhalten können.
Das heißt, Tiago kommt in Wien in den Kindergarten? Ja, ich suche gerade eine passende Einrichtung. Er ist so schnell groß geworde , die Zeit ist wirklich wie im Flug vergangen. Ich erinnere mich noch, wie ich ihn als Baby aus dem Krankenhaus getragen habe und jetzt kommt er schon in den Kindergarten. Ich kann es gar nicht glauben. Und Wien hat einfach so viel Klasse und das Leben hier ist super. [Source]

Italian Auto-Maker Vygor Presents Their $192,000 Car: Opera

"If there’s even been a perfect example of a car you either love or hate, the Vygor Opera is it. About two weeks ago, Vygor, a company claiming to be based in Tuscany announced that it would be unveiling a new luxury car on October 10 destined for production. Well, that date is today and as promised Vygor has released the first details and images of its new luxury car, the Opera coupe crossover. Designed for the expanding niche of high-performance cars on stilts, the Vygor Opera will be built to order in Italy in a limited run of 150 cars in total. Exclusivity will be the name of the game with no two Operas expected to be the same.

Want to Live in a Kansas Opera House?

"A $500,000 federal grant is turning an old El Dorado opera house into much-needed housing for the community. When it was originally built in 1884, the building housed Ellet's Opera House. It opened in downtown El Dorado, named after Civil War General Alfred Ellet. Today few reminders of that glory remain. 'Probably for the last 60 to 70 years, it was in this state of storage basically,' said David Wernli, developer. But soon, work will begin to transform this and another historical building, dating back to 1918, into apartments." [Source]

Violent Beauty: Operatically-Tinged Photographs of Ori Gersht

Israeli photographer Ori Gersht was born in 1967. He is a professor of photography at the University for the Creative Arts in Rochester, Kent, England. One particular series he produced that has extraordinary beauty: "The large-scale photographs entitled Blow Up depict elaborate floral arrangements, based upon a 19th Century still-life painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, captured in the moment of exploding. Gersht´s compositions are literally frozen in motion, a process dependent on the ability of the advanced technology of photography to freeze-frame action. This visual occurrence, that is too fast for the human eye to process and can only be perceived with the aid of photography, is what Walter Benjamin called the ‘optical unconsciousness’ in his seminal essay ‘A Short History of Photography’. Flowers, which often symbolise peace, become victims of brutal terror, revealing an uneasy beauty in destruction. This tension that exists between violence and beauty, destruction and creation is enhanced by the fruitful collision of the age-old need to capture 'reality' and the potential of photography to question what that actually means. The authority of photography in relation to objective truth has been shattered, but new possibilities to experience reality in a more complex and challenging manner have arisen." [Source] A brief biography of the photographer and few more photos are after the jump.

Kristin Chenoweth Won't Record Hip-Hop, But Considers Opera

US Magazine: Are there any other genres that we'll see you tackling?

Kristin Chenoweth: I'm going to try really hard not to do hip-hop. Something tells me I would not be accepted in that world. But I can see me doing another country record, to be honest. It feels very right to me. And I'm a new artist so in a way I feel like I’m starting over. I can also see me, before I die, doing an opera record. There you go. All over the map! [Source]

How Does Soprano Amelia Farrugia Like to Wet Her Whistle?

Amelia Farrugia likes to enjoy a celebratory
glass of chardonnay after a performance.
(Photo: Tamara Dean)

"Before a show, Farrugia indulges in nothing more toxic than a skinny flat white. At interval she soothes her vocal cords with a peppermint or chamomile tea and after a show she lets her hair down with a celebratory glass of chardonnay in the green room. 'Most opera singers are into herbal tea,' Farrugia says. 'Hydration is important for your voice. I also drink a ridiculous amount of water.' Private parties are another voice-preservation technique, says Farrugia, who is starring in Opera Australia's The Merry Widow at the Sydney Opera House with David Hobson, a fellow tea-lover. 'I have been doing a lot of entertaining; friends or family will come back up to the green room and have a glass of wine with me,' she says. 'My vocal cords are already tired from performing so I can't go anywhere too noisy or loud, anywhere I have to shout. You have to be a bit precious as a singer. Even at a private party, if it is noisy, I think 'Oh god, I can't stay very long because I can't bear to have to shout.' Celebrations at bars and restaurants for cast parties tend to be special occasions for me. Particularly in winter, the more exposure you have to people with coughs and colds the more susceptible you are to come down with something.'" [Source]

Jennifer Hudson Surprise Birthday Party at Opera Ultra Lounge

Diva of Song: Jennifer Hudson
(Photo: Jeff Martin)

"Jennifer Hudson celebrating her 30th birthday at Opera Ultra Lounge Monday night. The newly-svelte singer, in town for the Kennedy Center concert honoring Aretha Franklin, thought she was going to a late birthday dinner with friends; instead her sisters and about 300 fans surprised Hudson with a party at the new downtown club. The festivities — with a three-tiered cake, 'Happy Birthday' sung by Raheem DeVaughn and Lil’Mo, and Hudson’s hits performed by drag queens — lasted until 2 a.m." [Source] Watch a performance by Jennifer Hudson after the jump.

Perry Street Was Flourishing Romantic Mecca For Love & Art

Far and Away: Harold Eliot Leeds and
Wheaton Galentine NOT on Perry Street.
(Photo: Harold Leeds Estate)

"The house where Carrie Bradshaw lived, supposedly on the Upper East Side but actually at 66 Perry Street in the West Village, still draws a steady stream of Sex and the City fans. They snap photos of the row house, which was built in 1866, as if to partake in the fictional life of a New York writer and the foibles of her quest for lasting romance. But a real New York romance played out at the house next door, No. 64, whose plainer facade served as Carrie’s building for the first three seasons of the show, said Tim Gunn, the fashion executive who lived in an apartment there for 16 years. It lasted almost six decades, linking two men from their first meeting at the Rockefeller Center skating rink during World War II until one of them, Harold Eliot Leeds, an architect and professor of interior design at

Sirens of Perry Street: Carrie Bradshaw on left (played by
Sarah Jessica Parker) and Tim Gunn on right.

Pratt, died in 2002. Inasmuch as Sex and the City opened a window on a certain kind of life in New York, so too does that town house, now on the market for $8.5 million, with its connection to a Village that persists only in memory and imagination, a place that was a magnet and haven for people living outside the mainstream at a time when the idea of two men, or women, marrying was inconceivable....Mr. Leeds, who designed the Paris Theater, the Caribe Hilton in San Juan and Martha Graham’s dance studio, and Mr. Galentine, who made documentary films, many focused on architecture, turned their visual sensibilities toward the house, restoring its architectural features but adding distinctive modernist furnishings. Over the years, Mr. Leeds, who is remembered as a big man with a big,

The most famous exterior on
Perry Street today: Number 66 .

broad personality, taught interior design at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he helped establish the graduate school of interior design. Mr. Galentine was quieter, but possessed what the couple's longtime neighbor described as a puckish sense of humor. Endlessly hospitable, the two liked to entertain, playing host to neighbors stopping by for tea or a cocktail, and having dinner parties with the artists, writers and poets who populated their neighborhood, talking about opera or ballet or the theater. They also liked to travel, Mr. Skovgaard said, to Martha’s Vineyard, all over Europe and eventually Southeast Asia." [Source]

Elizabeth Taylor Jewelry Sale Includes Opera Necklace

"Gold and ivory necklace featuring ivory opera passes, circa 18th and 19th centuries, a gift from the estate of Edith Head, is shown in this photograph at Christie's, in New York, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011. It is estimated at $1,500 - $2,000." (Photo: Richard Drew/AP)

"Elizabeth Taylor dazzled the world with her luminous beauty, lavish lifestyle _ and an unquenchable passion for diamonds and jewels that was fueled by the great loves of her life. The late Hollywood star amassed one of the foremost jewelry collections in the world, including a 33.19-carat diamond ring and a 16th century pear-shaped pearl from one of her seven husbands, Richard Burton. The Associated Press recently viewed about two dozen of her most iconic pieces at Christie's auction house, which is selling her complete jewelry collection, valued at $30 million, in New York on Dec. 13-14." [Source]

Who is Vittorio Grigolo's Idol? Fonzie from "Happy Days"

The heir-apparent to Luciano Pavarotti's reign as Italy's top tenor seems to be Vittorio Grigolo. In an interview with Corriere della Sera for the September issue style section, he admits that his idol growing up was Fonzie from television's Happy Days. He admits that it was because he loved motorcycles and the television character was always getting the girls in an easy manner. Check out the full text below. You can also download the full article here.

Tenor in hog heaven: Vittorio Grigolo
atop a Harley Davidson

"Il tenore Vittorio Grigolo è protagonista del servizio di copertina del numero di Style di settembre in edicola da domani. Grigolo - che da bambino ricevette l' incoraggiamento di Luciano Pavarotti che lo aveva sentito cantare - è un artista atipico che fuori dal teatro preferisce non parlar di musica ma piuttosto delle sue passioni: specialmente la motocicletta (il suo idolo giovanile era Fonzie di Happy Days ). Spiega il tenore a Style : «Fonzie era uno che piaceva alle ragazze senza prendersi troppo sul serio: e io come lui mi son fatto una piccola officina amatoriale fin da ragazzo e trafficavo, anzi "accricchiavo" in garage. In quegli anni correvo sui kart, e infatti il mio primo manager nello spettacolo è stato un manager di automobilismo, Giampaolo Matteucci, lo stesso di Giancarlo Fisichella. Oggi ho la mia Yamaha R1 Superbike del 1991 che non è esattamente omologata per la strada ma ci ho fatto Roma-Zurigo, mi sembrava di essere Max Biaggi. È andato tutto bene finché non ha cominciato a piovere: le gomme non erano quelle giuste, e mi imbattei in una grandinata spettacolare. Arrivato a Zurigo, la schiena mi faceva male da morire, ma ho bisogno di questi momenti di solitudine. Sono i miei momenti Zen. Ricostruire una vecchia Porsche pezzo dopo pezzo, montare e rimontare elicotteri telecomandati: mi basta questo, e tutto il resto - i contratti, lo studio, le visite dal commercialista - non mi pesa». Sulla vita da tenore-globetrotter spiega:

"Aaaayyyyy!" Henry Winkler as Fonzie

«Siamo sempre in viaggio, non sempre trovi la palestra, mangiare le cose giuste diventa un problema. Ma devi essere in forma come in passato non succedeva. Gigli e Caruso, i più grandi di tutti i tempi, però viaggiavano in nave: la pressione era diversa. E per loro non c' era il video a alta definizione se prendevano un chilo di più...». Oltre a Grigolo, Style ha intervistato anche gli altri tenori che dominano il mondo dell' opera: il tedesco Jonas Kaufmann il beniamino di Claudio Abbado, Marco Berti, comasco giramondo, Juan Diego Flórez re peruviano del do di petto, e Sergei Semishkur, poliglotta transiberiano. Tra gli altri servizi del mensile in edicola da domani la Mountain bike estrema sui sentieri dolomitici: un servizio realizzato al Sellaronda Hero, la più massacrante fra le maratone. Scoprendo che tanti sindaci, manager, imprenditori si presentano ai nastri di partenza." [Source]